Immunomodulatory activities and phytochemical characterisation of the methanolic extract of Dioscorea alata aerial tuber

Immunomodulatory activities and phytochemical characterisation of the methanolic extract of Dioscorea alata aerial tuber

The tubers of Dioscorea alata L. are popular nutritional supplement and also used in traditional medicine as anti-inflammatory agent. However, in spite of tremendous ethnopharmacological use, the aerial tubers of D. alata have never been evaluated for any kind of bioactivities. Moreover, the phytoch...

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Main Authors: Priyankar Dey, Sandipan Ray, Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
Subjects:
Anti-inflammatory
Cytokine
Dioscorea alata
Macrophage
HPLC
GC-MS
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464616300081

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